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(IV) David, son of John Peabody, was born July 12. 1678: married Sarah Pope, of Dartmouth. Massachusetts, one of the four daughters of Zac- cheus Gould. They lived in Boxford, where they joined the church in 1706, and he died April 1. 1726. llis widow died September 29. 1756. aged seventy- two He was ensign in the military company. Chil- dren : 1. Thomas, born September 22. 1705. 2. Han- nah. October 14. 1707. 3. Sarah. September 26. 1709. 4. Mercy, January 23. 1712. 5. John. April 11. 1714, mentioned below. 6. Deborah, September, 1716. 7. Rebeca. December 3. 1718. 8. Susanna, May. 1712. 9. Mary, September. 1723. 10. David, October 4, 1724. 11. Mary. November 1. 1726.
(V) John, fifth child of David Peabody, was born .April 11. 1714, at Boxford. and died April 27. 1705. He lived in Boxford, and belonged to the church there. He married Mary Chadwick. Febru- arv 26, 1736. His widow married second, Ebenezer Killum, of Boxford. July 9. 1767. Children : 1. David, born June 27. 1730, settled in Nottingham, New Hampshire. 2. Mary, born December 22, 1737. 3. Mchitable, September 13. 1739. 4. Asa, July I, 1741 5. Jedidiah. April 11. 1743. mentioned below. 6. Moves, November 1. 1744. 7. Ruth, April 7. 1746. 8. Andrew, January 20, 1748. 9. Elizabeth. Febru- ary 17. 1751. 10. Lucy, March 23. 1753.
IV'ID) Jedidiah, son of John Peabody, was born April 11. 1743. in Boxford, Massachusetts. He was a soldier in the Revolution and was at Bunker Hill ; was in Captain William Perley's company. Colonel James Frye's regiment. April 19. 1775. to August or later. He lived in Newport. New Hampshire, for a
time in Maine, then in several New Hampshire towns, and died at East Lebanon, New Hampshire, about 1825. He married. October 9. 1766. Alice Howlett. Children: 1. Lydia, born September 17, 1767: married David Bowman. 2. Ammi Howlett. born July 4. 1760: married Margaret Rice and Sarah Johnson. 3. Mary, born July 6. 1771, married Daniel Marshall. 4. Moses, born November 29, 17-7 5. Susanna, born September 29, 1775. 6. Thomas, born August 11, 1777; mentioned below. 7. Alice, born June 1. 1779: married Eleazer Whit- ney, of Henniker. New Hampshire. 8. Andrew, horn July 13. 1782. 9. Frederick, born March 20, 1785: married Rebecca E. Carter. 10. John, born March I. 1787. IT. Betsey, born June 2. 1789.
(VII) Thomas, son of Jedidiah Peabody, was born in Maine. August II. 1777 : married, November. 1801. Betsey Willis, of Hanover. New Hampshire. They settled in East Lebanon. New Hampshire. He died April 3. 1865. He was educated in the common schools and followed farming all his life for an oc- cupation. In politics he was a Democrat. Children : 1. Harriet. 2. Thomas Taylor. 3. Austin. 4 Mar- quis Ladoit. 5. Elizabeth Warner. 6. Fanny Willis. 7. Cyrus. 8. Martha Reddington, born August 17. 1826. at Lebanon. New Hampshire, and now the only survivor of the children of Thomas and Betsey Pea- body.
(VIII) Martha Reddington. daughter of Thomas Peabody, was born at Lebanon, New Hampshire, August 17. 1826. She has never married. She has made her home at Enfield, New Hampshire.
(III) William, third son and child of Lieuten- ant Francis and Mary ( Foster) Peabody, was born 1646. in Hertfordshire. and lived in Boxford, Mas- sachusetts. He was married Angust 14. 1684, to Hannah Hale, of Newbury, who survived him nearly thirty-four years, and died February 23. 1733. He passed away in March, 1699. Their children were: Stephen, Mary. Ephraim, Richard, llannah, John, Abial, and Oliver.
(IV) Ephraim, second son and third child of William and Hannah ( Ilale) Peabody, was born October 23. 1680. in Boxford, Massachusetts, and died June 1. 1740. in that town. He was deranged from 1732 until his death, and his brother Stephen was one of his guardians during that time. He was married in July, 1713. to Hannah Reddington, and their children were: Thomas. Abraham, Ephraim, Anna. Nathaniel. Stephen and Mary.
(V) Nathaniel, fourth son and fifth child of Ephraim and Hannah ( Reddington) Peabody, was horn December 18. 1727. in Boxford, and lived in that town, where he died August 17, 1778. He was married February 26. 1755. to Ilepsebah Barker, of Andover. He was a very successful man in busi- ness, and the inventory of his estate places its value at eight thousand one hundred and thirty-seven pounds, eleven shillings, four pence. His children were: Amasiah. Ephraim. John, and Nathaniel.
(VI) Nathaniel (2), fourth son and youngest child of Nathaniel (1) and Hannah (Reddington) Peabody, was born 1767. in Boxford. where he re- sided in early life. He removed thence to Dracut. and is recorded as the executor of his brother Ephraim's estate in 1804. He was married April I. 1789. to Betsey Cole, and their children were : Hepse- bah, Nathaniel, Betsey, Ephraim and Moses.
(V)1) Nathaniel (3). eldest son and second child of Nathaniel (2) and Betsey (Cole) Peabody, was born February 26. 1792, probably in Dracut. Ile married Mary Gilchrist.
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(VIII) Eliza Ann, daughter of Nathaniel (3) and Mary Gilchrist Peabody, became the wife of Isaac Hill (see Hill VIII).
STOWELL This name is found in the early New England records with many spellings, such as Stoel, Stoyel, Stowel, and in recent usage has taken the form of Stowell. Many still retain the old spelling as first above given, but the form as here used is that in most common use. The family was very early im- planted in New England, and has spread from that cradle of American citizenship through the United States, and is especially numerous in all of the north half. It has had honorable representatives who have been conspicuous in public life, and its bearers have done credit to the name.
(1) Samuel Stoel came to what is now Hing- ham, Massachusetts, in 1647. As this town was named by its settlers from their native town of Hingham, in Norfolk county, England, he is sup- posed to have come from there. He was a weaver by trade, and resided in Hingham. In 1649 he mar- ried Mary, daughter of John and Frances Farrow, and they had eleven children, namely: Mary, Samuel, John, David, Remember, Benjamin, an in- fant died unnamed, William, Israel (died young), Israel and Elizabeth. Five generations bearing the name of Samuel lived on the old homestead on Fort Hill street, in Hingham.
(II) David, third son and fourth child of Samuel and Mary (Farrow) Stoel, removed to Cambridge, where he lived for some years. He subsequently settled in Newton, Massachusetts, where he died. He was a weaver, and lived to a great age, being known as "old Stoel." He was married, April 7, 1695, in Cambridge, to Mary Stedman, who died in Newton, September 24, 1724. Their children were: David, Benjamin, Samuel, Ruth, John and Mary.
(III) Samuel, third son and child of David and Mary (Stedman) Stoel, settled about 1730 in the west precinct of Watertown, Massachusetts, which is now Waltham, and died there March 12, 1748. His wife's name was Sarah, and their chil- dren were: Anna, Sarah, Abigail, Josiah and Thomas (twins), Thankful Cornelius, Mary and Elizabeth.
(IV) Cornelius, third son and seventh child of Samuel and Sarah Stoel, was baptized October 4, 1730, in Watertown (Waltham), Massachusetts, and died in Worcester, in that state, January 3, 1804, aged seventy-eight years. In early life he settled in Worcester, where he was a clothier. He was married, March 29, 1749, to Levilla Golding. of Worcester, who survived him more than eight years, dying June 7, 1812, aged eighty-two years. Their children were: Samuel, Abel, John, Thomas, Eben- ezer, Hannah, Elizabeth, Peter, Cornelius, Abigail and Mary.
(V) Ebenezer, fifth son and child of Cornelius and Levilla (Golding) Stowell, was born 1753, in Worcester, and settled in Cornislı, New Hampshire, where he died at the age of eighty years. He was a member of the famous Rogers' Rangers, and served in the French and Indian war, and also in the revolutionary war, for which he received a pension. He married Pamelia Whitney, died in 1833. The names of eight children are given : Eben, Ezra, Israel, Elias, Ira, Calvin, Amasa and Celinda.
(VI) Amasa, seventh son of Ebenezer and Pa- melia (Whitney) Stowell, was born in Cornish,
New Hampshire, in 1795. He married, in 1817, Betsey Spalding, a daughter of Abel (2) and Eliza- beth (Chase) Spalding, (see Spalding IV), born in Cornish, August 28, 1796, died November 7, 1854. They had ten children, all born in Cornislı- Sylvester F., February 10, 1819; Whitney S., Sep- tember 2, 1820; Lucinda N., April 29, 1822; Joseph, April 20, 1824; Martha C., January 8, 1826; Eve- line L., September 16, 1827; DeWitt C., October 8, 1830; Caroline M., October 14, 1832; George H .; Austin S., September, 1838.
( VII) George H., ninth child and fifth son of Amasa and Betsey (Spalding) Stowell, was born October 28, 1835, and his boyhood days were passed on the home farm. He lived the rugged life of the times, with more work than play, assisting in the cultivation of the farm, and attending the public school whenever opportunity afforded. Of hardy, persistent New England stock, the heritage of an- cestry and the early training of a New Hampshire mountain farm had their influence in forming habits of thrift and industry that eventually placed Mr. Stowell's name prominent among the list of New Hampshire's public men. In March, 1860, ambitious promptings led him to give up farming, and he removed to Claremont, the town adjoining Cornish on the south, a prosperous and growing community offering inducements and possibilities that appealed to Mr. Stowell's instincts and tempera- ment. His first venture was in the gravestone and marble manufacturing business, which he carried on successfully until 1864, when he purchased the hardware stock of Levi B. Brown. Mr. Stowell made no change in the location of the business, in the northwest corner store of Oscar J. Brown's brick block, and for thirty-seven years, or as long as he remained in business, he occupied this site. "Stowell's corner" became a land-mark; a synonym of business prosperity and place of far-reaching in- fluence in affairs of both town and state. The busi- ness grew until it became one of the best known hardware firms in New Hampshire. The stock was increased to cover a wide range of commodities, and when coal revolutionized the fuel business the first car-load of anthracite for house use was brought to Claremont by Mr. Stowell. Eventually, coal became an extensive branch of his trade.
Meantime he was actively engaged in other oc- cupations that called for executive power and care- ful financial management. To meet the demands of Claremont's growing population, tenement houses were needed, and Mr. Stowell was one of the pio- neers in erecting a number of first-class structures for this purpose. And when in 1887 the old wooden Brown block on the corner opposite Mr. Stowell's store was destroyed by fire, he was the leader in organizing the syndicate that procured the site of the burned property, and built thereon Union Block one of the finest and best appointed business blocks in the state. His last building venture of public consequence was in 1895, when he built "Sto- well Block," a handsome, modern business struc- ture on Pleasant street.
With multudinous and increasing business cares, Mr. Stowell has never neglected public interests, in which his services could be of public value. His advice, influence, and sound conservative judgment has contributed much to promote Claremont's ini- portance as a town. His own business success, by his own efforts, made him a power in any enter- prise where careful financial discrimination was needed. In return for these qualifications his town
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has honored him in various ways as an able repre- sentative citizen. He was a member from Clare- mont in the New Hampshire legislature in 1871 and 1874; a state senator in 1875 and 1876; member of the governor's council from 1881 to 1883; aide, with rank of colonel, on Governor Prescott's staff, from 1887 to ISS9; member of the state constitu- tional conventions of 1876 and IS89; and a delegate to the Republican national convention at Chicago in 1884. In 1888 he was in Europe several months on a pleasure trip, and to restore his health, which had partially failed. In town business his name is always found on important boards and commit- tees, and with the exception of the year 1878 he served continuously from 1873 to 1894 as chief en- gineer of the local fire department. In this im- portant public service he kept pace with larger towns in maintaining fire fighting facilities, and saw the department re-organized from hand tubs to modern steam equipment. Mr. Stowell sold out his hardware business in 1901, but is still a busy man of affairs, and occupied in the management of the People's National Bank, a sound financial in- stitution which he helped organize and of which he is vice-president and a director. Mr. Stowell is one of the four gentlemen who in 1907 purchased the Monadnock Mills-one of the most important manufacturing interests of Southern New Hamp- shire.
Mr. Stowell married, December 25, 1857, Sara E., daughter of Dexter and Eliza (Earle) Field. She was born in Chester, Vermont, January 26, 1834, and is a direct descendant of Sir John Field, the astronomer, born about 1520, at East Ardsley, England. and died May, 1587. He was styled the proto-Copernican of England, as he was first to make known in that country the discoveries of this remarkable man. By a patent dated September 4, 1558, the heralds recognized his right to the family arms, and granted to him the erest of a dexter arm issuing out of clouds, holding in the hand a sphere, a recognition of his services to the cause of as- tronomy.
The first American Field ancestor was Thomas Field, a great-grandson of Sir John, born in Eng- land, about 1648. He came to America about 1670 and settled in Providence, Rhode Island. The family lived there for many generations and were conspicuous in Colonial and Revolutionary history. They were extensive land owners. The Field's Point e-tate was transferred to the city of Provi- derce by Eleanor Field, a grandaunt of Mrs. Sto- well's in 1860, having been in possession of the family for nearly two hundred years. Mrs. Sto- well's grandfather removed from Providence to Chester with his father in 1785, where he married and his children were born. All his life he was importantly identified with the affairs of the town, interested in all progressive movements, and was one of the largest contributors to the building of Chester Academy, an institution which flourished from 1814 to 1876. Her father inherited his father's land estates, and was widely known for his fine blooded stock. Mrs. Stowell's mother's family was also of English origin. Her grandfather, Dr. John Young, was born and educated in London. 1Je was a man of prominence in medical circles and for a time was one of the physicians to King George III. The family have also a common an- cestor with Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton.
Mr. and Mrs. Stowell had one child, Cora E., who was born in Claremont, June 24, 1860. She
was educated in the public schools, and was the valedictorian of her class in Stevens High School, 1879. She afterwards, at the New England Con- servatory of Boston, took a special course in music, elocution, and literature, studying Shakespeare under Professor William J. Rolfe, and later was a private pupil of Genevieve Stebbins Thompson, of New York. On November 5, 1896, she was mar- ried to George I. Putnam, author and journalist. She died March 8, 1903. In her memory Mr. Sto- well has erected a granite and bronze mausoleum in Mountain View Cemetery at Claremont.
The Stowell residence at the corner of Pleasant and Summer streets is attractively located, and con- spicuous in its handsome architectual design. Here, amidst the comforts of his own getting, enjoying the confidence and good will of his fellow citizens, he approaches his declining years, ripe with the fullness of a well ordered life, and keenly in touch with the men and the movement of the times.
CILLEY This name is variously spelled Seely, Seeley, Sealy, Sealey, Seelye, Sillea, Sillia, Sellea, Cecly and Ceilley. It seems to have been the fame of Major General Joseph Cilley that determined the spelling for the New Hampshire family, and anchored it as Cilley. In Massachusetts Seelye and Seeley seem to be the common forms, and the first has become well known as the name of presidents both of Amherst and Smith colleges. The origin of the patronymie is lost in obscurity. One fanciful derivation refers it to the Scilly Isles, formerly spelled Silly and Scil- ley, also Syllah, from an old British appellation, meaning "rock consecrated to the sun." Another and more reasonable explanation derives it from Sea-ly (sea-like), referring to the maritime occu- pations of the early members of the family. The name first appears in English History in 1553, when Dorothy Seeley, of the city of Bristol, petitions Queen Elizabeth for the release of her husband, who had been accused by the Inquisition and cast into prison. Captain Thomas Seeley, probably a son of this couple, is found among the list of cap- tains who accompanied Drake to the West Indies in his famous voyage of 1585-86.
(I) Captain Robert Seely was a resident of Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1630, for he regis- tered his desire to become a freeman on October 19 of that year, and took the oath on May 18, 1631. It is probable that he came over in the fleet with Winthrop. A few years later he moved to Wethers- field, Connecticut, and was second in command under Captain Mason in the Pequot war where he was shot in the eyebrow by a flat-headed arrow. In 1645 the commissioners appointed him in connec- tion with Captain Miles Standish, Captain John Mason and others who had chief command of the forces coming from New Haven. In 1663 he was chosen commissioner from the town of Hunting- ton. Captain Robert Scely died in New York, and his widow Mary was appointed administratrix of liis estate, October 19. 1668. The historian of the Cilley family assigns the following sous to Captain Robert and his wife: John, William, Richard, Na- thaniel and Obadiah. There is little doubt about the descent of Nathaniel Seely, who lived in New Haven, but the ancestry of the others seems to rest upon the exhaustive sifting of probabilities. The brothers, John, Richard and William Seely, lived at the Isles of Shoals, then a flourishing part of New England, and it is supposed that they came
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there when their father was a resident of Water- town. The fact that they were of Puritan belief when all the other Shoalsmen were loyalists, helps to confirm this theory, and there is evidence that they were from the same part of England, Essex county, as Captain Robert.
(II) Richard Sealy, supposed to be the third son of Captain Robert and Mary Seely, was a magistrate at the Isles of Shoals in 1653, and after- wards removed to Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. The name of his wife is unknown, but there were children : Martha, who married John Cluff, January 15, 1686; Thomas, whose sketch follows.
(III) Thomas, elder son and second child of Richard Sealy, was born probably at Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, about 1670. He was a sea captain and lived at Hampton Falls during his carly life, afterwards moving to Nottingham, this state, and spending his last days with his soul Thomas at Andover, New Hampshire. Captain Thomas Seally (thus he spelled his name) married Ann Stanyan, daughter of John and Mary (Brad- bury) Stanyan, of Hampton, and they had six children : Mary, John, Abigail, Joseph, whose sketch follows; Anne and Thomas. Thomes Seally died at Nottingham, New Hampshire, while on a visit to his son Joseph, having come from the home of his son Thomas in Andover, New Hampshire.
(IV) Captain Joseph Ceilly (thus he spelled his name) was born October 6, 1701, probably at Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. He spent his youth in that place, lived a few years at Salisbury, Massachusetts, where he married his wife, and in 1727 removed to Nottingham, New Hampshire, where he built a log cabin on Rattlesnake Hill. He brought all his household goods and property of every description on the back of one horse, and he and his family walked into the township on foot. In time he built a large house and multiplied his possessions till he became a man of wealth for that day. He was agent for the proprietors of the grant, and a captain of militia. Captain Cilley was a man of strong endurance, fearless in danger, cheerful in disposition, and energetic in character; truly of the stuff of which pioneers are made. In 1724-25, Captain Joseph Ceilly married Alice Rawlins, daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth Rawlins, of Exeter, New Hampshire, and a granddaughter of Judge Thomas Rawlins, justice of the court of ses- sions. She was born in 1701, the same year as her husband, and she reached the age of one hun- dred. She is described as a strong, vigorous woman, famed for her neat housekeeping. It is said that she drank neither tea nor coffee, nor used snuff, a common habit in those days, and that when she died in 1801 she was fresh in countenance, fair in feature, and young in heart. Captain Joseph and Alice (Rawlins) Ceilley had six children: Anna, married Job Mills, of Deerfield Parade, this state; Polly, married Colonel Richard Sinclair, of Barn- stead, this state; Alice, married Enoch Page, and went to Cornville, Maine; General Joseph, whose sketch follows; Abigail, married Zephaniah Butler, and they became grandparents of General Benja- min F. Butler; and Cutting, married Martha Mor- rill. Captain Joseph Ceilly died in 1786, aged eighty-five years.
(V) General Joseph Cilley, eldest and fourth child of Captain Joseph (I) and Alice (Raw- lins) Ceilly, was born at Nottingham, New Hamp- shire, in 1734, and thought that the three r's were a sufficient amount of learning for his son. The
latter developed into a man of action, rather than a student, and in later life he had little time or in- clination for reading anything but the public prints or the statute laws. In 1758 he enlisted as a private soldier under Captain Neal, who was attached to the celebrated Roger's Rangers. They marched to the Northern frontiers and to Canada, and young Cilley remained with this company for a year, ad- vancing to the rank of sergeant. Governor Plumer says of him that he possessed a sound judgment, quick apprehension and much assurance, and that after his return to his native state he began, self- taught, the practice of law among his neighbors. The people of the town were exceedingly litigious, and Cilley made pleas and drew writs before jus- tices of the peace, arbitrators and referees. But the military life had the dominant attraction for liim, and before the Revolution he held a captain's commission under the Royal government. In 1774 he was engaged in the attack on Fort William and Mary at Newcastle in Portsmouth harbor. This was really the first overt act of the Revolution, and the powder, stored at Exeter and Durham, in one case under the pulpit of the Meetinghouse, was af- terwards used in fighting the battle of Bunker Hill. Upon the news of the skirmish at Lexington, one hundred volunteers from Nottingham, Deerfield and Epsom gathered at Nottingham Square, and with Cilley as their leader, marched to Cambridge. Joseph (2) Cilley was appointed major in Poor's (Second) Regiment by the assembly of New Hamp- shire; was made lieutenant-colonel in 1776; and on April 2, 1777, was appointed colonel of the First New Hampshire Regiment of three-years men in the Continental army, in place of Colonel John Stark, resigned. He fought bravely at Bemis Heights, was at the surrender of Burgoyne, and his conduct at the battle of Monmouth in August, 1778, was such as to win the personal thanks of the com- mander-in-chief. He distinguished himself at the storming of Stony Point under General Wayne, and on March 20, 1779, the New Hampshire house of representatives presented him with an elegant pair of pistols in recognition of his bravery. After the war he was appointed major-general of the first division of New Hampshire militia, June 22, 1786, and headed the troops that quelled the insurrection of that year, arresting the leader of the rebels with his own hand. He was successively treasurer, vice- president and president of the Order of Cincinnati in New Hampshire, and was representative, senator and councillor in the state government, and in 1791 a member of the convention to revise the costitution. In politics he was an ardent Republican (Demo- crat), and he early advocated the election of Jef- ferson to the presidency. Governor William Plumer, of Epping, who wrote his biography, says of General Cilley: "He was on all occasions open, frank and explicit in avowing his sentiments; there was no vice he so much abhorred and detested as hypocrisy. His passions were too strong to be de- ceitful ; * * and though his manners were not those of a courtier, they were easy, plain and * correct." The same writer gives a vivid pen-pic- ture of Cilley's personal appearance : "His person was about five feet, nine inches high, and somewhat corpulent ; his eyes black and sparkling; his coun- tenance animated, and he walked with great agility. His mode of living was plain, frugal and economi- cal." General Cilley accumulated a handsome estate for those times, and lived to see his children well settled in life.
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